Yale Postdoctoral Trainees | Yale MacMillan Center Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies

PRFDHR Seminar: Multisectoral Approaches to Improving Mental Health and Psychosocial Wellbeing in Humanitarian Settings, Professor Claire Greene

There is consensus that humanitarian actors should respond to the mental health and psychosocial needs of displaced populations through multisectoral action and coordination. Multisectoral programming may enable the integration of mental health and psychosocial support with services designed to address critical social and structural determinants of mental health including poverty, stigma, safety and security, and social connectedness and cohesion. In this presentation, Professor M.

PRFDHR Seminar: Rejecting Coethnicity: the Politics of Migrant Exclusion by Minoritized Citizens, Professor Yang-Yang Zhou

Professor Yang-Yang Zhou will be presenting the research of her new book project ‘Rejecting Coethnicity: the Politics of Migrant Exclusion by Minoritized Citizens’. How are migrants received by host countries and communities? A substantial body of scholarship on migrant reception focuses almost exclusively on majority White citizens in the Global North and their (negative) attitudes towards migrants from the Global South.

PRFDHR Seminar: Climate change and migration, Professor Solomon Hsiang

Using social media data for over 2 billion individuals, Professor Hsiang uses new techniques to study whether climate change is likely to contribute to global migration flows.

Gender & Policy Forum (Session 3)

SESSION 3
Sustainable Development
March 3rd 2023 – 2 pm to 3.30 pm (ET)

Public policy challenges: territory, society and gender

Scholars:
Margarita Velázquez Gutiérrez,
Professor-Researcher, Center for Multidisciplinary and Regional Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico. Co-founder Gender, Society and Environment Research Network

Democratic Backsliding in Latin America

Countries in Latin America have enjoyed periods of democratic revival and suffered from periods of democratic decline since their independence. Recent events in Peru and Brazil add to the many cases in which democracy was about to break, but it did not.

Destruyendo la Semilla: Children and Adolescents as Internal Enemies of the Guatemalan State

Maria Aguilar (Yale Latin American Studies) will present as part of CLAIS Colloquium Series. Join us for coffee and pastries and a great conversation!

Creative Industries in Latin America

Join 2022 World Fellow Martin Inthamoussú as he leads a conversation on the cultural and creative sector in Latin America and the Caribbean. There will be a closing performance by David Alzate (Jackson School of Global Affairs MPP candidate). Open to the Yale community.

Agrarian Studies Colloquium - Madre de las aguas: The Life and Death of Glaciers in Bolivia’s Cordillera Real

Sarah Hines is an assistant professor of history at the University of Oklahoma where her research and teaching focus on Latin America and the Caribbean with an emphasis on histories of the environment, infrastructure, race and ethnicity, and social movements. Her current book project, “Water for All: Revolution, Property, and Community in Twentieth-Century Bolivia,” is a social, political, and environmental history of water access and hydraulic engineering in Bolivia from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first.

Café Con Leche

Take a coffee break with the Yale Latino Networking Group, Yale Black Postdoctoral Association, and Yale Postdoctoral Association Racial Justice Subcommittee in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month 2022. Join us for a hybrid meet and greet, fun conversation, and trivia!

The first 30 people to register can pick up a free cup of coffee and sweet treat from a local Latinx-owned bakery! Coffee and pastries will be available for pickup at 11:30 am - 12:30 pm from Yale School of Medicine & Science Hill campuses. Trivia will be from 1:30-2:30 pm.

BRAZIL 100/200: Reflections on the Legacies of the Week of Modern At & the Bicentennial of Independence

Brazil at 100 / 200 will explore how memory and culture shape the meaning of independence today. By integrating a reflection on the twin centenaries of independence and the São Paulo Modern Art Week, this conference will reflect on the meaning of independence in the light of ideas about Brazilian identity that inspired the modernists one hundred years ago and continue to provoke us today.
This will be a hybrid conference via Zoom as well as with in-person components at Yale University and at the Braudel Institute in São Paulo.